The democratization of the disinformation process may well be the most serious threat yet to the functioning of U.S. democracy—an institution already under attack. Even the AI overlords are worried: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warned that “you can’t trust anything that you see or hear” in the elections thanks to AI. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the company that gave us ChatGPT, mentioned to U.S. lawmakers that he is nervous about the future of democracy.
